Björn von Finckenstein | |
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Mayor of Windhoek | |
In office 1995–1998 | |
Preceded by | Vivienne Graig-McLaren |
Succeeded by | Immanuel Ngatjizeko |
Personal details | |
Born | Björn Graf Finck von Finckenstein 23 July 1958 Usakos, South West Africa, South Africa |
Died | 17 December 2021 Swakopmund, Namibia | (aged 63)
Nationality | Namibian |
Björn Graf Finck von Finckenstein (23 July 1958 – 17 December 2021) was a Namibian politician. [1]
Only child and son of Günther Georg Wilhelm Graf Finck von Finckenstein (Farm Tjirundu-South, 17 June 1934 - Windhoek, 15 September 1990) and wife ( Otjiwarongo, 8 March 1958) Anka-Margit von Goldammer ( Karibib, 26 August 1936 - Usakos, 22 May 1983).
His paternal grandfather Friedrich Georg Bechthold Graf Finck von Finckenstein ( Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany, 2 September 1901 - Otjiwarongo, 23 December 1965) went to German South West Africa, where he married ( Omaruru, 2 July 1932) his paternal grandmother Dorothea Freiin von Puttkamer ( Ornassau, West Prussia, Prussia, Germany, 13 February 1907 - Omaruru, 6 November 1977), who also went to live in the German South West Africa. They also had four daughters there:
He served as Mayor of Windhoek from 1995 to 1998. [2]
He married in Windhoek, Namibia, on 6 November 1992 Christine Kendzia, born in Windhoek, South West Africa, South Africa, on 29 September 1971, and had one daughter and one son: